Oh, thank you much, I'll update my notes! I searched around where I could but never found another clear example. Looks like they may all be...
Congratulations on your find at ANA! I've always liked the coins of Crispus for some reason but I'm not quite sure why. Here's my most recent...
Next: Ram [ATTACH] Caria, Hekatomnos (?) AR Hemitetartemorion (Milesian standard, 4mm, 0.12g), Uncertain mint, c. 392-377 BCE. Obv: Head of...
Probably my favorite boar, a little obol from Caria, Euromos: [ATTACH] Caria, Euromos AR Hemiobol (8 mm, 0.50 g, 10 h). Obv: Forepart of a boar...
Antiochos IV was the son of Antiochos III but was apparently still seen by some as having usurped his brother Demetrius I. Galley prow behind...
Oh, that is fantastic! I'm a collector of FEL TEMP REPARATIOs and captives/barbarian coins especially, but I don't think I ever knew of this type....
Before-and-after photos of Titus denarius with Curule reverse. Previously in the A. Short Collection (already cut), and before that Jyrki Muona,...
Now: Mt. Argaios Countermark. NEXT: FIRST CENTURY ROMAN PROVINCIAL (or another Mt. Arg. anytime!) Here's a little Britannicus from...
PLEASE KEEP SHARING CAPTIVES &/OR TROPHIES! It's been a while, but seeing as new threads aren't exactly proliferating, I figured I'd share some...
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I just got a copy of Malter's 1995 Byzantine numismatic bibliography (the second vol. 27 years after the first!), and noticed that it included a...
Thank goodness the reverse survived & it was the obverse that got corroded! (Not that it's really a super rarity.) You're definitely right. I...
This is a very late follow-up (!), but seeing as the second part of the sale of the Paeonia Hoard was only lightly mentioned, I thought I'd...
By dirty looking places do you mean the toning? (Toward the perimeter, lower half of the coin on both sides?) If so, that's not dirt, but toning,...
I can see why! There are obviously multiple things about this one that are special, but my eye is drawn to the shoulders, can't remember seeing...
Congrats! Finding a placeholder can be an oddly satisfying experience, relieving the stress of feeling one must find one, find one now, find it...
Yes, you are correct that Scipio Africanus (the first one, there were some others later!) lived c. 150-200 years before Julius Caesar (the last...
I'd like to know too, since I've got some of these Spink tags (not with these particular codes, but similar format). Old tags can be amazingly...
Oof, I'd love to have one of those! I missed my chance when Forvm had them available. One of the lots I got from CNG's sale of the Kenneth...
I forget what his exact role was in Spain, but after the Carthaginians were gone I think he was more like the acting general for a time. More or...
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